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Considering how many structures from thousands of years ago are still around, I'd be shocked if there weren't any 21st-century buildings standing thousands of y
by briga 8y ago
Considering how many structures from thousands of years ago are still around, I'd be shocked if there weren't any 21st-century buildings standing thousands of years from now.
- Spooky23 8y agoThousands of years ago, the king did a levy for labor and demanded whatever he wanted. Today, you need to build a building designed to depreciate in 30 years to maximize your taxes.
- Someone 8y agoRebar makes buildings a lot stronger, but also has the unfortunate property of rusting. That makes it less strong and expands it, damaging other parts of the structure. It also is more or less everywhere. Also, modern buildings often are designed for a given economical lifetime. If you order a structure that can be maintained for 50 years at $1M a year, that’s what you will get. You likely can keep it standing for centuries, but at ever-increasing maintenance costs. On the other hand, we are building so much that, statistically, something will be standing thousands of years from now.